Dormancy: Illuminating How a Microbial Sleeping Beauty Awakens

作者:Sawers R Gary
来源:Current Biology, 2016, 26(21): R1139-R1141.
DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2016.08.039

摘要

Nitrogen limitation induces dormancy in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis. During dormancy, the bacterium neither photosynthesizes nor divides, yet it maintains low-level metabolic activity. A new study shows how provision of a nitrogen source initiates a regimented genetic program that initially kick-starts metabolism and ultimately photosynthesis.

  • 出版日期2016-11-7